History Series / Victorious

* BareYourMidriff:

** Lampshaded in "Sleepover at Sikowitz's:

* GamesOfTheElderly: This trope is referenced when Jade and Tori act out a skit about an elderly woman who gets mugged while returning home from a game of bingo.

* PublicMediumIgnorance: In "Locked Up", Tori plays a game of Go Fish with two of her fellow inmates. The cards they are holding are clearly TabletopGame/YuGiOh cards.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Beck. His actor, Creator/AvanJogia, is half Indian, but the only thing we know about Beck's heritage is that he's part Canadian.

%%* UnEntendre: A large number of them.

* AdultsAreUseless: Pretty much so, as all the main teens seem to exist without supervision, curfews or responsibilities, and in some cases the kids (esp hinted at with Robbie and Jade) come from much more troubled or neglectful homes. Tori's parents (who are the only ones we see, except for one brief appearence each of Jade and Beck's fathers) originally seemed to be the exception, but by season 3 they're either absent or completely apathetic to raising their children.

* BatmanGambit: In "Freak the Freak Out," the group is insulted by two girls named Hayley and Tara while at Kareoke Dokie, so Cat and Jade challenge them to a sing-off. Despite clearly being favored by the crowd, Cat and Jade lose because Hayley's father owns the place, and always crowns his daughter and Tara as the winners. Cat and Jade challenge them again, with the caveats that A) the winner ''must'' be chosen by the audience, and B) Hayley and Tara can pick anyone from the crowd. They choose Tori, who Cat and Jade had disguised as a hideous stranger, knowing that Hayley and Tara would pick her. Tori proceeds to bring the house down, and Hayley and Tara are humiliated.

%% * BigBad: Usually appear in specials, Hayley Fergunson and Tara Ganz in ''Freak The Freak Out'', The Yerbanian Chancellor in ''Locked Up'' and Mason Thornsmith in ''Tori Goes Platinum''.

** In "Prom Wrecker", it is stated that Hollywood Arts never had a prom before, yet in the Pilot episode, Rex says that Cat is still mad that noone asked her to the last prom. This can be attributed to ''EarlyInstallmentWeirdness''.

** Jade even goes all out, attempting to sabotage Tori's prome, [[RuleOfThree from premiering a scary video in front of the attendees, cancelling the band to perform there, and even hiring a guy only wearing a loose diaper to dance at the prome]], all because [[spoiler:Sikowitz had her performance cancelled at the asphalt cafe for Tori's prome]]. Tori does manage to get her back at the end though.

** Most characters are fairly different from how they were in the pilot. Jade still had her trademark colored streaks but was a more conventional AlphaBitch, though in subsequent episodes got developed into being a goth girl who's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Robbie, while still not suave, became capable of normal conversation with the opposite sex. Rex's design is very different from the pilot, including paler skin, a thinner body and neck, paler complexion, and smaller eyes/mouth. Cat's hair is no longer curly as well, and the main hook was her being more intensly bi-polar than a CloudCuckoolander. Tori's hair, instead of being perfectly straight and heavily banged, is now wavy.

** Tori's Mom and Dad came across like loving parents in their first couple of appearences, but instantly afterwards their cruel TheUnfavorite treatment of Trina came out and by late season 3 they seemed to stop caring about either kid altogether.

* GoodBadGirl: Cat's boyfriends tend not to last very long (81 hours is her record). She's also described as "the sweetest thing ever" and, though her actions may have negative consequences, she always has good intentions.

** In the pilot episode, Tori most likely wouldn't have kissed Beck on-stage (thus intentionally ticking off Jade) if Jade hadn't humilated her in such a greedy way. Granted, she saw Tori with Beck, but Jade also knew (as EVERYONE at Hollywood Arts knew) that Tori was new there, and thus wouldn't know to steer clear of Beck at all costs.

** Ryder is force fed a nice helpping of HumblePie in front of the entire school by Tori and all the girls he's manipulated.

-->'''Robbie''': (high pitched squealing niose)

* LiteralMinded: Somewhat inverted in Drving Tori Crazy. Andre's grandmother asks Tori to hold her oatmeal which Tori accepts, as it turns out she really does ''hold'' her oatmeal (she dumped the oatmeal on Tori's hands instead of giving her the mug)
* LoopholeAbuse: In "Victori-Yes", Andre realises this when the girl he's with asks if he wants to go home.

* OhWait: Though she never uses those words, this is implicilty Jade's intent during the following exchange in "Car, Rain, and Fire":

* PromWrecker: The TropeNamer. Jade attempts to be this when the Hollywood Arts Prom conflicts with her one woman show, causing her play to be cancelled. She rigs the projector to show disturbing images and hires a man who dresses up in a diaper and dances. She's stoped when [[spoiler: Tori declares her and the diaper guy Prom Queen and King. The diaper guy then picks her up and carries her away.]] It was mentioned earlier in the episode that Jade had [[Literature/{{Carrie}} some blood on standby]], but she never uses it.

** In a similar but much more risque fashion was Beck constantly getting openly hit on by adult women, though less so after season 1.

** "Terror on Cupcake Street" has one, whom we assume tricked Tori into leading him and his posse to the float on the pretext of fixing her tyre. ''Then he really does fix her tyre''.

** Beck the moment he hears that Mrs Lee wants to alter Jade's script in "Wok Star."

** Cat's line "What's THAT supposed to mean!?" was a nod to the ''Moody's Point'' sketch on ''Series/TheAmandaShow'', also created by Creator/DanSchneider. Furthermore, Cat's format of telling her stories is "One time, my brother... [insert random anecdote], [conclusion]" is exactly how Kyle Rosdensen (''Totally Kyle'' skits) storytells in a dreamily drugged manner.

** Robbie also qualifies, as many of the problems the kids get into over several episodes (notably ''The Great Ping-Pong Scam'', ''How Trina Got In'' and ''Locked Up!''), are directly his fault. His behaviour in dealing with Rex (notably in ''Wi-Fi In The Sky'') also puts him in this category.

* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Forumla for every episode of the series. The main plot is usually Tori with between 1 and 3 of the rest of the main cast. Whoever is left over is put into the B-Plot.

** In "Locked Up", while it's subverted when the chancellor not only sentences Tori to ''four years in prison'' all because of her shoe malfunction that blinded him, it's then taken UpToEleven when he then sentences '''the entire rest of the gang''' after Robbie accidentally kills his electric clock and octopus!

** In ''The Worst Couple'', as Jade and Beck are arguing, Cat stands between them with her hands pressed against her ears, chanting to herself: "I'm under my bed, I'm under my bed..."

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Well, the Kid-show version. Avoided a bit in ''Andre's Horrible Girl'' as he's clearly uncomfortable about the whole thing and she's shown in the wrong, though in ''Three Girls And A Moose'' Jade crawling and smooching all over a verbally non-consenting Moose is entirely PlayedForLaughs.

** Most characters are fairly different from how they were in the pilot. Jade still had her trademark colored streaks but was a more conventional AlphaBitch, though in subsequent episodes got developed into being a goth girl who's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Robbie, while still not suave, became capable of normal conversation with the opposite sex. Rex's design is very different from the pilot, including paler skin, a thinner body and neck, paler complexion, and smaller eyes/mouth. Cat's hair is no longer curly as well, and the main hook was her being more intensly bi-polar than a CloudCuckoolander. Tori's hair, instead of being perfectly straight, is now wavy and heavily banged.

** Jade was one of the more sane people on the show despite her callous tendencies and had some decent depth. She quickly turned into psychotic and vengeful ManipulativeBastard and has stooped to lows such as stealing a pint of blood that Tori donated just to keep her from performing in the school play, as well as attempting to kill the first ever Hollywood Arts prom. This seems to be finally dropped in Season 3 (notably in "Tori Goes Platinum" and "Opposite Date")

** In the pilot episode, Tori most likely wouldn't have kissed Beck on-stage (thus intentionally ticking off Jade) if Jade hadn't been mean to her. Granted, she saw Tori with Beck, but Jade also knew (as EVERYONE at Hollywood Arts knew) that Tori was new there, and thus wouldn't know to steer clear of Beck at all costs.

* BreakupBreakout: For many today, this series is most famous for launching Ariana Grande, who's music career really took off after production of the show.
** The rest of the performers have seen varying levels of success or failure: Elizabeth Gillies the most notable as the lead on the Series/Dynasty reboot, Avan Jogia has had a steady acting career if never achieving a-list level fame, Matt Bennett similar until 2018 where he's since been more of a social media personality and Leon Thomas- true to his Andre character- has worked in the music industry as a songwriter as well as various acting gigs. While most of Victoria Justice's Tv and music ventures post-Victorious were commercial flops that seemed to permanently stall her career at the time, she got more notice as an Instagram model/star in the late 10's and has returned to acting in streaming films during the 2020s.

* FriendsRentControl: Tori's deluxe LA house, considering the only known paycheck is that of her father's job as a detetive. Which either means Tori's mom has a much more lucrative white collar job or one of her parents had a wealthy inheritance, or they just needed to use a larger soundstage for the scenes set at Tori's home and simulating a house of this size made sense.

** Most characters are fairly different from how they were in the pilot. Jade was significantly deepened, saving her from being the AlphaBitch. Robbie, while still not suave, became capable of normal conversation with the opposite sex. Rex's design is very different from the pilot, including paler skin, a thinner body and neck, paler complexion, and smaller eyes/mouth. Cat's hair is no longer curly as well. Tori's hair, instead of being perfectly straight, is now wavy.

** Cat started off as down to earth, not too smart but not too stupid either. Come season two, she became mentally retarded, unable to pay attention to anything. This continued into the ''Series/SamAndCat'' SpinOff.

** The pottery scene of ''Trapped in an RV'' references ''Film/{{Ghost}}''.

* ChangingYourselfForLove: In one episode, Cat meets a boy while she was wearing a blonde wig for a short film she was shooting. She lets him think she's a natural blonde as she worries that's the only reason he asked her out. However, eventually her wig is knocked off and the boy sees her actual hair. He admits he thinks she's beautiful, but doesn't like that she lied to him and breaks it off with her.

* AbsenteeActor:
** Cat was absent in "Jade Dumps Beck" and "The Wood".
** Trina was absent in "Robarazzi", "Beck's Big Break", "The Great Ping-Pong Scam", "Sleepover at Sikowitz's", "Beck Falls for Tori", "Jade Gets Crushed", "Opposite Date", "Cell Block" and "One Thousand Berry Balls".
** Beck was absent in "The Birthweek Song", "Tori Gets Stuck", "Prom Wrecker" and "Who Did It to Trina".

-->'''Beck''': Wow, I gotta go to, um...*Walks out*
** More commonly Beck (and the rest of the cast) come up with some sad excuse for an excuse, and Jade just tells the person off.
-->'''Andre''': Oh hey, it's that... guy.
-->'''Tori''': Wait up... guy!
-->'''Jade''': There is no guy.
* TheNotLoveInterest: ''Definitely'' Andre to Tori - which makes the character choice [[FairCop he made for her]] in ''Sleepover at Sikowitz's'' interesting ([[EroticDream especially after he recounts where the idea came from]]}, and raises interesting questions about how both Tori and Andre act during ''Prom Wrecker''.

The [[ScrewedByTheNetwork show's cancellation]] was confirmed in August 2012 while the 3rd season was still airing until its last episode on February 2013. The cast and crew did not expect the show to be cancelled, and thus did not write an appropriate finale episode, leaving the show with NoEnding.

%% * {{Meganekko}}: Tori, when she's wearing glasses at home.

** Even though he [[HeelFaceTurn eventually gave the kids credit of their work on the film]], the fact remains that if [[JerkAss Dale Squires]] hadn't [[DudeWheresMyRespect stolen it]] [[DidYouThinkICantFeel in the first place]], he wouldn't have been [[CurbStompBattle humiliated on national TV]] by a SassyBlackWoman. This is an example of the MoralDissonance in the Schneiderverse, as even [[NobleDemon Jade]] feels sorry for the guy getting it in the neck - even though Dale [[ICouldaBeenAContender screwed them all out of a serious career boost]] (because the most he could honestly take credit for was being executive producer).

** Cat was absent in "Jade Dumps Beck" and "The Wood"
** Trina was absent in "Robarazzi", "Beck's Big Break", "The Great Ping-Pong Scam", "Sleepover at Sikowitz's", "Beck Falls for Tori", "Jade Gets Crushed", "Opposite Date", "Cell Block" and "One Thousand Berry Balls"
** Beck was absent in "The Birthweek Song", "Tori Gets Stuck", "Prom Wrecker" and "Who Did It to Trina."

The [[ScrewedByTheNetwork show's cancellation]] was confirmed in August 2012, while the 3rd season was still airing until its last episode on February 2013. The cast and crew did not expect the show to be cancelled, and did not write an appropriate finale episode leaving the show with NoEnding.

-->-- '''"Make it Shine"''', sung by Creator/VictoriaJustice

-->- "Make it Shine", sung by Victoria Justice

** At the very end of ''Sleepover at Sikowitz's''. See the quote at the top of the page.